![AI in healthcare](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20201103_image2_cover.jpg)
Press Release
Nov 3, 2020
Second Annual National Health Symposium Event Summary Available
The event summary for the second annual National Health Symposium, organized by APL, is now available.
![Four APL staff members were honored at the 2020 Women of Color STEM Conference](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20201029_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Oct 29, 2020
Four From Johns Hopkins APL Honored at Women of Color STEM Conference
APL’s Xiomara Calderón-Colón, Bessie Lewis, Samantha Allen and Martha Cervantes were honored at the 2020 Women of Color STEM conference, held virtually Oct. 8–10. The annual conference recognizes the achievements of women from diverse backgrounds who inspire others through their leadership and success in science, technology, engineering and math careers.
![This composite image of a boulder on Bennu’s surface shows the cascading rim of one of the asteroid’s ancient craters that originated while Bennu resided in the asteroid belt](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20201027_image2_lg.jpg)
News
Oct 27, 2020
Craters on Bennu Hint at When Asteroid Arrived to Its Near-Earth Neighborhood
Asteroid Bennu, the target of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, seems to be a relatively recent newcomer to near-Earth space, according to a remote analysis of the asteroid’s craters that included APL researcher Olivier Barnouin.
![Agata Ciesielski](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20201022_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Oct 22, 2020
White House Taps Johns Hopkins APL’s Agata Ciesielski for Innovation Fellowship
APL’s Agata Ciesielski will help the Department of Transportation create policies for autonomous vehicles as part of a yearlong White House Presidential Innovation Fellowship.
![The authors in “Measure Twice, Cut Once” recognize the real risks presented by the Chinese government’s aggressive, and frequently illegal, attempts to close the gap, if not achieve superiority, in critical technologies — actions that require a firm yet nuanced American response.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20201020_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Oct 20, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Assesses Impact of Fraying US–China Tech Ties
Deteriorating relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China are impacting what had been a relatively open global exchange of the most significant technological advances. The question of how grave that impact may be is discussed in “Measure Twice, Cut Once: Assessing Some China–US Technology Connections” — a series of papers delving into American and Chinese efforts to control what has become a complex techno-trading system and a struggle over the terms of interdependence in a relationship that cannot be completely ended.
![Artist's rendering of a spacecraft](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20201020b_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Oct 20, 2020
OSIRIS-REx and the Challenge to Sample an Asteroid
Today, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will make history by slowly touching down on the rocky surface of asteroid Bennu for a few seconds and collecting a small sample to return to Earth. But those few seconds required some creative thinking on the part of scientists and engineers, and APL's Small Body Mapping Tool played a big part. Learn how in a new video released today.
![Data on a computer screen](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20201019_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Oct 19, 2020
Turning Down the Noise with Quantum Control
Quantum computers might be the key to developing everything from better materials to novel medical drugs, but they’re currently hampered by environmental noise. APL researchers are building the tools to overcome this problem by leveraging their expertise in a field that many here are quite familiar with: control theory.
![Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket lands on its pad in West Texas after a successful flight on Oct. 13 that included two Johns Hopkins APL space instruments. Credit: Blue Origin](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20201016_image1_lg.jpg)
News
Oct 16, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Space Instruments Ride Aboard Blue Origin
APL scientists and engineers are assessing data from two experimental instruments flown into space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket and crew capsule on Oct. 13.
![View of comet NEOWISE on July 5, 2020](/sites/default/files/2024-02/FeaturedImage_Neowise_large.jpeg)
News
Oct 13, 2020
Parker Solar Probe Spies NEOWISE
Parker Solar Probe was at the right place at the right time to capture a unique view of comet NEOWISE on July 5, 2020.
![Dragonfly landing on planet](/sites/default/files/2024-02/Dragonfly_Home_landed_desk.jpeg)
News
Oct 13, 2020
Searching for Clues to Our Origins
It sounds like science fiction: fly a robotic rotorcraft over the dunes of an alien moon, scanning and sampling its organic sands in a search for the chemical building blocks of life. But a team led by APL scientists and engineers is turning this idea into space exploration reality.